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Of course I am, have been... A lot... But honestly I can't really afford it. I would totally buy a box or two of that E100G as well as some Velvia50 in 8x10 while it's still available and freeze it if I could afford it just on the off chance I would someday shoot 8x10...Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Moe
I'm thinking about 14x17 pinhole cardboard box. I have fully abandoned 14x17 'real' cameras as just too, too hard to handle and expensive. I do have a C1, and I just got a little bicycle trailer today to carry it. My neighbors are already laughing...
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Originally Posted by StoneNYC
Haha, well, I can take the "real" camera off your hands :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Moe
I don't have one, I was going to make one, and nobody is getting my Studio Deardorff until 6 months after I am dead...
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Originally Posted by StoneNYC
Ok deal, just make sure I'm in the will HAHAHAHA :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Moe
I'm actually afraid of Deardorff's now because of the whole Cochran ordeal, if I ever want it fixed I have now where to go... And if I had sent him my camera and it wasn't returned, I would have gone over there and he might have problems repairing anymore after he was done with mine (I'm all talk of course).
Anyway, I kind of want to skip 8x10 and just shoot 11x14 and 20x24 and contact print those, they are my two favorite print sizes anyway. But, I'll NEVER be able to afford THAT.
Luckily I found a good deal on a 11x14 Studio Deardorff with huge stand. They were made here in Chicago and it seems many have stayed. There is nothing on this camera I cannot fix and I doubt it will need any fixing for another 80 years. I am having new bellows made and Richard Ritter is conforming my back to his holders.
I also want to contact print 11x14 and larger, since I have 100 sheets of X-Ray 14x17 I must shoot that pinhole. This is inner city, up and coming from ghetto to a place I can no longer afford to buy into, but I got in 10 years ago when it was just right.
Right now Chicago is building a local version of the NYC High Line at my doorstep. I plan to shoot (with cameras of course) people right from my stoop. Can't miss, there will be a ramp and staircase right here, after a very messy year of destruction. http://the606.org/
I got's plans, see!
Here is one similar to mine, less than a mile away, not selling and they just lowered the price from $4500. Hard things to sell, hard to move, hard to have the right space. It is missing the 11x14 back...The seller is a well known Chicago portrait shooter. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spectacular-...item4acdbcdcc6
Stone, things will improve for you, I got's stories, sad stories. So do you.
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Originally Posted by StoneNYC
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Lens: landscape meniscus 167/6.7, made by me
I really like this image!Quote:
Originally Posted by asuilin
Would you please tell us how you made a meniscus 167/6.7 lens?Quote:
Originally Posted by asuilin
Where did you get the glass blank? What grinding grit did you use? How did you polish the glass? Etc.